Adam Conover Quotes

In a live setting, the audience is trapped and can't leave. That really makes the audience be with you and laugh more because you're there.

Adam Conover

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• Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Job
  • Career

• Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Internet
  • Tweet
  • Developments

• Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Good
  • Work
  • Memorial

• I think violence can never be justified.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Think
  • Never
  • Violence

• Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Chance
  • Note
  • Seldom

• Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Women
  • Interesting

• There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • People
  • World
  • Job

• Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • Science
  • Discipline

• In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Together
  • Failure
  • Finish

• I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Evil
  • Gun
  • Afraid

• Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Chance
  • Hold

• I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Women
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• I'm a dork!

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Dork

• Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Education
  • Become
  • Activity

• I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Live
  • True
  • Win

• Money for me today does not really matter.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Money
  • Today
  • Me

• My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Women
  • Choices
  • Judge

• A guy like Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather is used to fighting 12-rounders. Put them into the ring for three rounds against a top amateur boxer at a much faster pace, and they'll lose a fight, and how bad is that going to make them look?

  Mandy Bujold
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Fighting

• I never thought of myself as a comedian. That is a label – make me laugh. I want to make you think.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Laugh

• I know this is awkward, but when you laugh after almost everything you say, it ends up undermining you.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • Say
  • Laugh
  • Awkward

• If you really take a step back and observe people who are considered super-normal and watch them a bit, you'll realize that they're actually completely out of their minds! Most people are really nuts, and that's fascinating.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Considered
  • Fascinating
  • Nuts

• Be aware of everything around you, because you are receiving the answers to your questions in every moment of the day.

  

  Rhonda Byrne
  • Moments
  • Attraction
  • Receiving

• In a live setting, the audience is trapped and can't leave. That really makes the audience be with you and laugh more because you're there.

  

  Adam Conover
  • Audience
  • Laugh
  • Trapped